Spike Island is expected to get more than 50,000 visitors this year, up 20% on 2017, and plans are in place to bolster numbers by creating further attractions.

With 1,300 years of history, Ireland’s ‘Alcatraz’ has been named Europe’s No 1 tourist attraction, writes Sean O’Riordan

The Spike Island visitor attraction has rejected suggestions it has cynically exploited its link to Little Nellie, the “unofficial patron saint of Cork”.

Hundreds of metres of tunnels have been discovered at Spike Island, which have yielded up prisoners’ badges and a host of military equipment, including parts of coastal defence guns.

The Spike Island visitor attraction in Cork Harbour plans to introduce a second ferry to more than double passenger capacity in a bid to cope with surging visitor numbers.

Spike Island, Ireland’s equivalent of Alcatraz, has been nominated as one of Europe’s leading tourist attractions in the prestigious World Travel Awards.

Huge crowds are flocking to see a tourist attraction that’s being dubbed ‘Ireland’s Alcatraz’.

IT might not have been quite Mediterranean weather but, once again, the doomsayers got the prediction wrong as Cork Week entered its second day of full racing yesterday in Crosshaven, which is rapidly living up to its name as the Costa Del Cork.

TWO races were sailed at Kinsale on Easter Monday in the Kevin O’Leary Nissan April League series and now it is down to the wire for some as they face into the final race on Saturday. The influence of Munster’s rug